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"Mr President, on behalf of our Group I should like to warmly welcome Mrs Palacio Vallelersundi’s excellent report. As she said in her introduction, she has made the very wise decision to focus on what are the most critical issues for the creation of the single market.
I want to focus on a couple of the principal points that she makes. The first one is the need to address, within the Union, the impact of legislation on business. It is particularly important that we ask the Commission to reinforce its activities, to ensure proper compliance cost assessment and to assess the costs on businesses of the new legislation. I say to the Commissioner that we do not expect this to be done as an after-thought, after all the departments in the Commission have developed legislation. It needs to be an integral part of the policy and regulation process. He must make sure that from now on that a central objective is to help the internal market to move forward.
We were delighted to see a second point on the agenda at Lisbon. Our committee and, indeed, our Group has been emphasising, since this new Parliament started last year, the need to encourage the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises across the European Union. Mrs Palacio Vallelersundi’s report emphasises a number of key points such as the need to make business formation cheaper and quicker and the need to remove some of the barriers preventing entrepreneurs from benefiting from the risks of putting capital into starting up new businesses.
I am disappointed to see that our Socialist colleagues are proposing that clause should be taken out of this resolution. I can assure them that we will vigorously oppose that tomorrow. I invite colleagues to reject that proposal.
I conclude by confirming that the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market will continue to press vigorously for the speedy completion of the internal market. I give credit to all our colleagues, across all political groups, for the speed with which we have dealt with the electronic commerce directive this week. I hope that is appreciated. I hope it will demonstrate that we are prepared to work with speed. I hope that, together, we can really make the internal market work as quickly as possible."@en1
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